[SK]

I want to use an Html file as Data Source for mail merge.
The documentation says :
(http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/wo...875951033.aspx)
You can use an HTMLfile that has a single table. The first row of the table
must contain column names and the other rows must contain data.
I tried using simple table like this:
html
body
table
tr
tdName/tdtdAddress/tdtdCity/td
/tr
tr
tdN/tdtdA/tdtdC/td
/tr
/table
/body
/html

I accessed it though a web URl like : http://localhost/web/test.html
if I give this URL as Data Source, it gives error:
Document name or path is invalid.
But if I browse it, I can see the file intact.

Can somebody please provide a simple sample for this?

Thanks.!

[SK]

One more finding.
I found that giving the same Html file as data source works, when the file
is present locally.
It fails to work when a Web Url is given as Data Source.

Thanks

"SK" wrote:

I want to use an Html file as Data Source for mail merge.
The documentation says :
(http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/wo...875951033.aspx)
You can use an HTMLfile that has a single table. The first row of the table
must contain column names and the other rows must contain data.
I tried using simple table like this:
html
body
table
tr
tdName/tdtdAddress/tdtdCity/td
/tr
tr
tdN/tdtdA/tdtdC/td
/tr
/table
/body
/html

I accessed it though a web URl like : http://localhost/web/test.html
if I give this URL as Data Source, it gives error:
Document name or path is invalid.
But if I browse it, I can see the file intact.

Can somebody please provide a simple sample for this?

Thanks.!

[Peter Jamieson]

1. You are right. Word, "out of the box", cannot use http:// or ftp//
URLs as data sources (I do not know why, since Word is quite capable of
opening Word documents at http: or ftp: URLs)

2. Yes, Word can open HTML format data sources. It just cannot do it via
HTTP :-(

http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk

SK wrote:
One more finding.
I found that giving the same Html file as data source works, when the file
is present locally.
It fails to work when a Web Url is given as Data Source.

Thanks

"SK" wrote:

I want to use an Html file as Data Source for mail merge.
The documentation says :
(http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/wo...875951033.aspx)
You can use an HTMLfile that has a single table. The first row of the table
must contain column names and the other rows must contain data.
I tried using simple table like this:
html
body
table
tr
tdName/tdtdAddress/tdtdCity/td
/tr
tr
tdN/tdtdA/tdtdC/td
/tr
/table
/body
/html

I accessed it though a web URl like : http://localhost/web/test.html
if I give this URL as Data Source, it gives error:
Document name or path is invalid.
But if I browse it, I can see the file intact.

Can somebody please provide a simple sample for this?

Thanks.!

[SK]

I am sorry to hear that it does not function.
If I put fiddler, I can watch that it does not issue a GET command, but only
a PROPFIND command.


"Peter Jamieson" wrote:

1. You are right. Word, "out of the box", cannot use http:// or ftp//
URLs as data sources (I do not know why, since Word is quite capable of
opening Word documents at http: or ftp: URLs)

2. Yes, Word can open HTML format data sources. It just cannot do it via
HTTP :-(

http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk

SK wrote:
One more finding.
I found that giving the same Html file as data source works, when the file
is present locally.
It fails to work when a Web Url is given as Data Source.

Thanks

"SK" wrote:

I want to use an Html file as Data Source for mail merge.
The documentation says :
(http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/wo...875951033.aspx)
You can use an HTMLfile that has a single table. The first row of the table
must contain column names and the other rows must contain data.
I tried using simple table like this:
html
body
table
tr
tdName/tdtdAddress/tdtdCity/td
/tr
tr
tdN/tdtdA/tdtdC/td
/tr
/table
/body
/html

I accessed it though a web URl like : http://localhost/web/test.html
if I give this URL as Data Source, it gives error:
Document name or path is invalid.
But if I browse it, I can see the file intact.

Can somebody please provide a simple sample for this?

Thanks.!